CMMI FAQs

What you’ll see:

• Unclear who is authorized to make what decisions?
• Decisions are made on primarily subjective basis
• Same issue is “decided” over and over and over……
• Rationale for earlier decisions is unavailable when needed to understand the decision later in the project
• Only a few choices considered for major decisions

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Definition isn’t done well….. What you’ll see:

• Staff resists using the guidance in the standard processes that have been defined
• Mother of all process manuals” sits on the real (or virtual!) shelf
• Lots of time being spent getting process waivers
• Extreme amount of tailoring requested by each project.

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What you’ll see:

• Disagreement among technical staff as to the “done-ness” of different components
• Product under test doesn’t meet requirements/design expectations
• Defects that could have been caught early escape into later life cycle phases due to that
• Increase in integration/test time.

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What you’ll see:

• Subsystems don’t operate together
• Increased integration/test time
• Building test harnesses/procedures/etc late in the project
• Integration environment is inadequate to support the integration activities.

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What you’ll see:

• Less than optimal solution is “settled on”
• Products that don’t meet technical performance requirements and/or user needs
• Increased testing/rework to resolve design/architecture issues
• Customer is surprised at the solution that resulted from their requirements

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